2 ECDC is the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control.Established in 2005 by the European Parliament, the ECDC is the European Centre for disease Control and Prevention.ECDC’s mandate is to protect European Citizen’s health against emerging threats and to support the EU Member States work in the field of Surveillance, Outbreak Response and Scientific Advice.GIS has been identified by the organization as a strategic cross sectional activity that can greatly support the daily work and also long term objectives.Experts within the ECDC and Member States need to have timely access to disease maps, to combine accurate, consistent disease data with other geographic information, and to identify patterns in disease spatial data in order to protect and improve European public health.In line with this vision, ECDC has first released in March 2013 EMMA, the ECDC Mapping and Multilayer Analysis system.

3 Why EMMA? What does ECDC want from GIS first of all?  ChallengesVisualization and disease trackingHolistic approach to data analysisInteroperability between systems, tools, dataSharing of disease dataDefinition of standards for disease mappingChallengesSilos data structureGIS projects carried out individually (departmental GIS)Limited number of GIS software licenses and staffLimited capacity to retrieve / consume spatial data from other sources

4 What is EMMA?ECDC Mapping and Multilayer Analysis: Enterprise solution for ECDC for disease mapping and analysis and sharing.2 components:Back end: enterprise data, geoprocessing services, map services, procedures and standardsFront end: webgis clientAdd to map disease data from local file or connect to ECDC disease repositoriesConnect to other GIS data providers (e.g. EEA/ESRI,etc) and to Eurostat dataCustomized analysis tools to deal with case based and aggregated disease data4) Export maps to corporate layouts and sharw;

5 What is EMMA?ECDC Mapping and Multilayer Analysis: Enterprise solution for ECDC for disease mapping and analysis and sharing2 components:Back end: enterprise data, geoprocessing services, map services, procedures and standardsFront end: webgis clientAdd to map disease data from local file or connect to ECDC disease repositoriesConnect to other GIS data providers (e.g. EEA/ESRI,etc) and to Eurostat dataCustomized analysis tools to deal with case based and aggregated disease data4) Export maps to corporate layouts and sharw;

7 2) Join population data from EUROSTAT1CSV input data is uploaded containing only cases numbers2Upload and configure using the CSV import tool:Disease data from CSVPopulation data is joined: age groups are defined as AER age groups for geographic areas NUTS 0-2 level (source Eurostat 2011)population per age group is automatically calculated and joined to the uploaded data.2

9 4) Publish map Geo-GalleryThe Geo Gallery section allows ECDC experts to to store, share and distribute cartographic outputs if needed;Users can upload map and add a brief description of the map, a title and specify their section. This will facilitate the systematic retrieval of the map.Users can search for maps and download themGIS team follows up with map approval internally in the system

10 5) Get GIS training data and instructionsGIS documents Module:for discovering good practices of spatial analysis in epidemiology and access training data and material. In 2013 ECDC has provided EMMA training to Experts and EPIET fellows.2

11 6) Other ECDC web-gis clients benefiting from the GIS Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) of EMMA.ECDC GIS Clientsepidemiological and microbiological information about food- and waterborne diseases events.Ecdc Measles AtlasThis atlas has been prepared by the GIS team in collaboration with the Vaccine Preventable Disease team to monitor the progress of the ECDC’s priority to “advance measles elimination.” The atlas is hosted in an ArcGIS - Silverlight viewer and consumes a series of map services provided by the EMMA back-end that cover four series of maps showing vaccination coverage and incidence rates of measles in Europe between 2006 and 2012.The application is accessible to the public at Not sure what this means? By priority do you mean the ECDC initiative or goal to “advance measles elimination.”

12 EMMA RESULTS:Provide Experts in ECDC in the EU Member States, EU Commission with a full integrated GIS system, free of licence costs, that can be used to produce disease maps, and access and share spatially enabled data on European health/environment/socio economics etc.Seamless integration with other EU agency GIS system in support of the holistic approach to health/environment data analysisIncrease Agency productivity in GIS outputs by shifting the departmental model to enterprise and now from file centered to web-centerd.

13 GIS workflows, methods, tools, proceduresGIS workflows, methods, tools, procedures. How much similar or different are the EU agencies in GIS needs ? How much are / can we be similar in solution?ExampleEEA and ECDCSpatial data collectionSpatial data productionSpatial data analysisSpatial data sharingDevelopment of webgis applications and specific geoprocessing toolsPublic audience and trusted usersHigh demand from stakeholders, small team

14 Distributed editing and centralised management in EEADistributed editing and centralised management in EEA. A very efficient and smart example

15 Distributed editing and centralised management in ECDCDistributed editing and centralised management in ECDC. Extending further in line with EEA modelIntranet/DMZ

16 Benefits of sharing GIS strategies in EU agenciesLessons learnt on the key aspect of gis implementation e.g. identification of requirements, workflow design and QA/QC, interoperability of systems, sharing and data security etc.Better integration between ICT and Business side in EU agenciesSmaller learning curve for new teamsHigh productivity, lower costs